[Open] This is not what he'd expected from today.

[senseiofthesea]

Where: Academy and surrounding areas.
When: Starting just after noon on the 3rd, goes all day.
Who: Anyone who wanders in
Notes: Iruka had not planned to cover explosive tags today.

The first explosion had come from the far end of the building, and hadn't immediately set off any alarms. Another teacher might have had a mishap while teaching something about sealing.

The second explosion had all of the students tense, and the third had them hurrying out of their desks as he waved them in. Just in time too, because it wasn't a moment later that there was another boom, just overhead, and some of the recently vacated seats had rubble blown into them. It wouldn't have killed anyone, that he could tell, but he didn't know how many more were coming, and he wasn't going to risk the safety of the kids, even as more explosions sounded from beyond the Academy walls.

It was bad, the whole situation was very bad, and he snatched up one of the girls when another blast knocked her off her feet, keeping track to make sure that everyone was with him as he hurried them to the underground parts of the building. It was rarely used for anything but storage, but if the explosions were all coming from the roof, it would be the safest place until he was sure that they'd stopped.

The kids resisted staying put, of course, and as soon as he made sure everyone was uninjured and would not leave the area, he hurried out to help the other teachers as well. His kids would be okay, but he needed to get outside, and make sure that the people out there didn't need help too.

Some of the younger students had been scheduled for Taijutsu practice around that time, and he had no idea how bad it would be. The teacher in charge of them was new, and when he got out there, he was right to be concerned. It was chaos. And not just at the Academy either.

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[uchihasavior]

Target practice was one thing. It taught to fire in a straight trajectory, without sacrificing speed, or power, and the ability to train one's hand and eye to hit a specific target. In a successful ambush, one could utilize normal training. A stationary target.

But being caught up in combat meant that one had to make up for it, and aim for where a target would end up.

This was his goal in his practice today, knowing his mission was mainly spying, but not forgoing the chance that he would have to meet opponents head on. It's an hour that he manages, under the Konoha feat, entirely unaware of their impending attack.

The first explosion, like many others' reactions, seems ordinary. Accidents happen, demonstrations are had, other people practice. The ensuing rain of them is what stops him, the small sand bag he'd launched flying directly past him, gaze turned sharply towards the mass of eruptions littering his home village.

It'd begun, and his body is moving, mind taking a few instants to catch up. People are going to be harmed, rubble must be dodged, and smoke avoided as he makes a beeline for the Academy.

[senseiofthesea]

By the time Itachi arrives, Iruka has had to round up one of the groups of kids, at least one of whom couldn't look away from where part of the building nearest them had collapsed and the teacher, one he'd barely gotten to know at all, had gotten caught too close to the blast of one of the tags as he tried to intercept it.

The best Iruka could do was physically stay between the kids and that, wrapping a wound that was bleeding badly on one of the boys in the group.

"Itachi. I need someone to help with wounds so I can calm down the hysterical ones." He tipped his head to where a little boy was nearly hyperventilating.

[uchihasavior]

There aren't any words. He tips his head sharply, ready to relieve him of the children and tend to any injuries he can. Often going solo, he had to know how to patch himself up a fair bit, even if it wasn't his specialty.

In the back of his mind, he only thinks for an instant that he should've made another route. Their collective Hokage is somewhere in the village, but he hadn't seen the office receive any damage yet.

But he is here now, and he'll do all he can to help the other children before moving on. He wasn't the only ANBU in service, after all. He's closing the distance now, reaching back into his pouch for his salve and bandages, not yet willing his Sharingan to deactivate.

[senseiofthesea]

Satisfied that the wounds were being tended, Iruka turned his attention to rounding up the distressed children, pressing calm over them with sheer force of presence and doing what he could to soothe them. He'd come and go to get them to other teachers and their friends as he got each settled enough to get them at least out of the open.

It was a process that lasted into the halt of the explosions.

[uchihasavior]

Bruises, burns, cuts, and minor concussions. This and more is what he had to deal with as he remained near the injured children, using up his plentiful supplies. He makes sure to remain still as the explosions continue to go off, besides glancing up to make sure nothing is coming at him and the children.

The silence seems false, but he welcomes it.

[senseiofthesea]

"I can't sense anything going on anymore." He'd been running sweeps with his personal jutsu, which admittedly wasn't very far reaching... but it did mean nothing else seemed to be falling toward them. "I think it might be done for now."

[uchihasavior]

He could only hope. He's left gently pressing down on a deeper cut on a young boy, which was being difficult with the bleeding. Hes lightheaded, leaning against him heavily.

"I hope so." He murmurs, brow etched in worry. Perhaps this was meant to startle them rather than a full blown attack.

They got what they wanted, then.

[gentledheart]

Hinata was just heading back when the first explosion sounded in the distance. Her own workout for the morning finished and her attention on what she wanted to do with the rest of the day. She had a meeting in the afternoon. But she had the thought that she might stop by the mission desk see if there was something that didn’t need her to leave immediately for or maybe she would just send a missive to a few of her friends that she hadn’t spoken to recently. Set up a few nights or afternoons with them if they were nearby. So she didn’t think anything of it when she heard the explosion.

And then she heard another slightly closer and another. She’s running before the fourth goes off. Her only thought to reach the compound to help get the children and elders to safety before something catches fire. But her route takes her by the Academy and the chaos of it as children run trying to dodge out of the way of explosions and debris alike. The teachers trying desperately to herd the students inside and to safety somewhere in the building.

Her plan changes as she picks up a six year old that would have been pinned under a falling tree branch and rolls them both out of the way. Getting them both their feet she directs the student toward the building where many of the other students were being ushered inside from the class. Her gaze sweeps the yard quickly before going to work to herd any missed straggler. Her gaze briefly catching sight of her former Academy teacher doing much the same. Well this was a fine way to run into him again.

[senseiofthesea]

Iruka had just hit the yard and didn't see the group he was looking for, which made him worry, with reason, that they were on the side of the building closer to the monument. The explosions were still going off, and his eyes were sweeping the sky for more even as he got the kids to their teacher. "Hinata! Seven year olds, Taijutsu practice field! Are they there?"

Little did he know that there was definitely going to be more injuries, and no living teacher to speak of, on the other end of his request for her to check.

[gentledheart]

She's already looking, scanning the mess of the Academy and attached training fields. Searching through the smoke and fire was a pain and her byakugan activating to see through the smoke more easily. She can see them, it's like a punch to the gut to pick through the wounded and dead this way. "They're there. And they need help to get them back to the school. Their teacher..." She trails off sure Iruka would understand.

It was terrible but her feet were already moving that way. Veins receding now that the children were known to be in the right place. She couldn't do anything about their dead teacher but she could lead the students capable of walking back to the school. That much she could do.

[senseiofthesea]

He grimaced at the words, rounding up the last little girl to the teacher he'd been herding the kids to, and rapidly explained the collapsed route out he'd taken. As soon as the group ducked into the building he was spinning to head toward where Hinata had looked. "How many kids are hurt?"

[gentledheart]

"Seven." At least she thinks it was only seven. It's hard to distinguish injured from uninjured through the byakugan. The chakra flow doesn't change quite the same as it does with the dead. She won't know until she's closer and once she does she finds there's at least two more that were injured in minor ways and would need to be carried back to the building.

"Nine, there's nine, two of them will need to be carried back," she calls and then turns her attention to the scattered children. Some where crying others scared enough that they couldn't move and others still were coming toward her to ask what to do, what was happening, are they going to be safe, they want their parents all at once. It was a cacophony of voices competing with the already loud explosions.

[senseiofthesea]

He was quick on her heels, picking a path amid the damage on his way to the children. "I'll leave those to you while I try to get the others calmed and patched for travel."

[abileunaspada]

"Iruka-Sensei!"

Adela only arrivd at his side by the time the third explosion went off, with a bruise blooming on Adela's right arm. True, she had been near the second one, and she was doing what she could for damage control, but at the same time it wasn't like she was fast enough to avoid all of the debris without some mild damage. The fact that it was mild was good, but at the same time...

Okay good, looked like Iruka had already gotten all of the kids in the immediate area to safety, and Adela had done the same when she realized what was going on. It seemed like he was okay too...

"Was there another one around here?" The question was hurried, harried by her breath as she just tried to regain enough energy to be able to act at a moment's notice.

[senseiofthesea]

"Eight classes inside and two outside today as far as I was aware. I've seen three accounted for. I'm most worried about the ones outside, they're the youngest groups." He gestured sharply ahead of them, then ducked into a classroom he'd just heard an explosion from. "But that hardly means there aren't other damages in here too."

[abileunaspada]

"We'll be lucky if all the damages are just structural. Has Hokage-Sama already been informed about what's going on?" Her words were rushed while she looked around, trying to see if there was anything out of place that might indicate another hidden explosive or something else that could do further harm. They had to do everything possible in order to make sure that the kids and civilians were safe overall, and then they had to find the attack's source and motive. But one step at a time, safety was and always would be the first priority.

[senseiofthesea]

"If anyone has managed to get that direction or pull a scroll I haven't seen them. We've all been focused on the kids." He flicked his gaze upward. "Too many got hurt too fast to focus on anything else."

[abileunaspada]

"Okay. Let's make sure the kids outside are okay, and get them to safety. We can do a head-count, then make sure that Hokage-Sama's been made aware of the situation," Once more Adela nodded, coming up with the plan on the spot. Not that Iruka needed to be told - hell he might have preferred to take charge in the situation, but Adela was laying out what, at the time, she thought was best. If no one else, they had to make sure that the kids and civilians were led to safety.

"We can work on treating the injured when everyone's started to get grouped together. They'll be calmer with you, Iruka-Sensei, so I can go and get medi-nin to check them over if you think that would work."

[senseiofthesea]

"That would be best. Our only medic based chunin is going to get exhausted fast, and that's if she's not injured herself." He shook his head with a grimace. "I'll work on making sure all the kids are in safe positions."

[vitalfunction]

Gale had been elsewhere when the explosions had started, realizing something was wrong when the air currents felt wrong all of the sudden, but had been caught up in trying to deflect the falling tags. It was only when they were over that he remembered the children, and the promise he'd made. It had concerned a particular child that Gale didn't know how to really find, but the thought of any child being hurt filled him with pain and anger. It was wrong.

So he burst onto the scene in the midst of the chaos in the direct aftermath with escorts in tow, and immediately headed toward the wounded. One teacher sought to block the stranger--worse, foreigner--from getting too close, but Gale called up a healing jutsu, letting the glowing healing chakra surround his hands.

"I'm a medic; do you think refusing my aid is wise?"

It was enough to get the objector to step aside, and Gale immediately knelt to put the chakra to use, healing the child that was closest. There were many injured, and Gale didn't think he had enough chakra to tend to even only the more serious injuries, but he wasn't about to let that stop him.

[senseiofthesea]

He spotted the man, having been making rounds and working to get all the worse injured kids who needed more care than they could give them here to one spot so that they could pool their admittedly slapdash medic training into something a bit more coherent. Proper medical jutsu immediately brought him over and he looked the man over with critical eyes before gesturing to him sharply. "The worst injured kids are this way. We teachers have done what we can but it's not going to hold and so far no medics have arrived on scene before you, and the one we have on site is quickly tiring."

He'd turned after his first sentence, already heading back the direction he'd come from. He wasn't a natural leader, at least, he didn't view himself as such, but the children were his priority and always would be, and the other sensei needed someone with a cool head. So... that just happened to be him, at the moment.

[vitalfunction]

Gale was following as soon as he'd finished healing the first child, only pausing long enough to push bandages in an adult's hands for the more minor cuts that he did not heal. He nodded at the explanation as they moved.

"I will do what I can until my chakra gets too low, and hope more aid arrives. I cannot heal them all myself."

In spite of saying that, he was already kneeling in front of the worst injuries in the new group and giving the wounds a thorough look. It's bad.

"This might be better with seal use. Can you and your comrades use seals adequately?" It might be a little overkill, but Gale is better at seals, and it might conserve his chakra a bit if he can funnel the healing through seal structure instead of a more direct application of chakra. Others would be able to apply their chakra as well, if they're familiar with seals and can follow direction.

[senseiofthesea]

"We have a medic on staff, but I'm not sure how fast the medics will get here from the hospital given how widespread the damage is." He slowed a bit, trying to sort out how seals could be used for this, though he knew there were medical seals.

"I'm decently proficient, but I can't say the same for everyone. Most are novices or so with a leaning toward security seals because we've started teaching the kids those because of the scroll system."

[vitalfunction]

"My true area of expertise is in seals. Provided you have good chakra control and some proficiency with seals, I can adjust the seal to our needs. With others funneling chakra into the healing, we should be able to spread out the exhaustion and heal more of these children."

Gale stands, looking at all the rubble and dust. "I cannot work at my best here. Is there somewhere close that is relatively undamaged? Also how many share your general proficiency level or have excellent chakra control?"

[senseiofthesea]

"I'm one of the better ones where seals are concerned I'm afraid. Chakra control there are a few others though, they're in the partially underground space where we got the children to when the chaos started. It's the best we're going to get. The worst hurt are already there since it's cleanest."